Country: UK
Year: 1992
Duration: 26'


Capoeira Quickstep is a Brazilian dance performed to Africanbased music. The film is a fictional documentary about the way this tropical dance is transformed when it reaches this Anglo Saxon island.

"As discussions continued throughout the making of the film, both of us developed a different understanding of each other's culture. Within the film there is a tension between the characters which reflects stereotyped gender divisions: the man tries to present a broad historical background to his experience. while the woman delves into her personal past. We wanted to achieve a contrast between the straightforward documentary images and the personal exploration and associations which these spark off". (Gillian Lacey and Roberto Mader)

Biography

film director

Gillian Lacey

Gillian Lacey worked in commercial animation for many years before founding Leeds Animation Workshop in 1978. She has been writing film and television fiction and teaching since leaving the Workshop in 1986. She directed many animated films presented at festivals and distributed before 1988, same year in which she directed for Channel Four the animated film Murder Most Foul.

Roberto Mader

Roberto Mader is a Brazilian TV journalist. In Brazil he also directed a series of documentary videos based in rural communities. He has studied film at Goldsmiths' College and recently completed an MA in Communications Policy Studies at City University.

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Gillian Lacey, Roberto Mader.
Director of photography: Janet Tovey.
Musica e suono: Karen Boswall.
Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan.
Cast: Gillian Hanna, Kenneth Hadley, Tara Cameron, Jessie Teggin.
Production company and Italian distribution: BFI Production, 29 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AG, tel. 6365587, fax 5809456.
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